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Credit is the Devil.

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SJ almost deaded me a month ago.

I f*cked up. You want to know how?

Not being forth coming about L-school related credit card
debt incurred during to my first year.

My historical greasiness didn’t scare him away.
Nor did my smart mouth.
Sh*t he has hung in there through the the the tumultuous
‘after dee dee‘ era.

But that credit. Almost got me deaded.

I was not being forthcoming, I withheld the actual amount
out of shame. I just gave him the low end ball park range.

Then the sh*t hit the fan.

His rationale is how can he be stacking claypot chips
and I can’t even be forth coming with him regarding
my Forever 21/Zappos/brunch/Mac store/law school supplemental
study materials from amazon debt?

I had no response.

Well. I did have a response. See. I thought had a defense.

I have taught financial literacy classes, so I KNOW BETTER.

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Word to the Access Group.

Real talk. You want to see a couple fight.

Bring up money. Or sex.

With that in mind, I wish I could see the area in our brain that
lights up when we are shopping.

In fact, I bet it is analogous to the area at that represents
sexual stimulation. Perhaps I am on to something
here.

SJ and I are cool now.

Hugged it out.

But sh*t was tight for a minute.

I mean, anyone can do
Monday morning quarter backing. I made a mistake.
An egregious one. But a mistake just the same.

At the end of the day, his question for me
was whether I can save, which I can, and perhaps
most importantly why I employed those spending
habits when I in fact knew better.

I can honestly say that it was stress, convenience
and underestimating the long term impact of it.

Like many grad students, I underestimated my ability
to remain current. Jobs that I planned for, didn’t work or
internships came though, but were UNPAID.
Sh*t was real.

I was mentioning this shit to Gotty, and he
said “Credit is the Devil”.

That’s real talk.

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What have you bought lately?

What do you plan on taking back to the store?
What up Tmr! Yes, I’m calling you AND that dress out.

What is most of your credit card debit attributed
to and how do you manage it?

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Condi and Michelle: An Imagined Conversation.

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Setting: Whole Foods, on outskirts of Silver Spring Maryland.
Friday morning. They are both on a quick grocery run.

They run into each other in the hot food “carving section”.

Condi: I have been meaning to ask you, Girl, who does your buffount?

Michelle: My neice, Keyanna, she has a shop right downtown
near The Hill.

Condi: Oh. Okay. I will look her up. How is the campaign treating you,
Boma’s numbers are hurting right now, at least nationally.

Michelle: I know girl. And boy does that man irritate me
when those numbers come out. I just have to reassure him
that “this is a marathon, not a sprint, darling.”

Michelle’s phone rings.

Michelle: Hold on Condi:

**Michelle takes call and quickly gets off.

Michelle: Sorry about that—

Condi: Hold up. Was that RAP music on your ring tone?

Michelle: Oh. What? Yeah. Its this young man named TI,
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that the woman has TI on her ringtone.

Michelle: Condi, don’t look at me like that. Sh*t. I am a woman.
And that is just a ring tone for my baby sister so go on.
Speaking of me, whats going on with you. Whats your plans
for ’08?

Condi: I haven’t decided. I may go back to Stanford. I am
really interested in teaching. So we will see. As for right now,
this situation with Pakistan is irking my last DAMN nerve girl.
I mean the man has just went and suspended the damn constitution.
Now you know my job is hard.
But with him making moves like this, it just makes arguing for
the benefits of democracy THAT much more challenging. You know?

I swear I could put his little @ss in a head lock.

(((( m.dot giggles at the idea of Condi putting Musharraf
in a head lock.)))))

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M.dot<<<<<----demented, neurotic & creative.

Combustible combo, no?

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SIDE BAR***SIDEBAR***SIDEBAR***SIDE BAR***SIDEBAR***SIDEBAR***

Its 4am.

And I am on a flight to NYC
in a few hours.

I wrote this w/ American Gangster on repeat.
Can you tell?

I been fighting with SJ.

Sh*t hurts.

That “I miss you” fighting.

I’m scared y’all.

I don’t know what BK holds for me.

Last time I was there, we didn’t agree with each other.

In the spirit of planning ahead, I offer you these
three Monday morning posts, and I will see you
on Wednesday on the get back.

-md.

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Brooklyn’s Million Dollar Heist

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Fresh from watching American Gangster,
I read this article about a million dollar heist in Brooklyn.

While reading it, all I could think was who does sh*t like this
and lives to tell about it?

Sean Gardiner at The Voice breaks it down,

Word started circulating in certain nefarious circles in Brooklyn in early 2006 that 40-year-old John Allen Davis was a mere shell of his former dope-dealing self, having been hospitalized with bacterial meningitis for a month and spending more than a week of that in a coma. One of his eyes was partially closed, he could hardly hear, and he needed help just to walk. He was “food,” robbers were saying, ripe for the picking.

On January 19, 2006, some robbers recruited a big thug named Derrick Gordon and laid out a plan to satisfy their hunger. “They tellin’ me they got a food,” Gordon later told investigators. “They tellin’ me they got a drug dealer with a hundred thousand at the house. Whatever, whatever. They say it’s going to be easy. He just gonna give it up.”

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“Blew it up on anything, partying, having a good time,” he recalled. “It took me about two weeks.”

It was only three months later, as he sat in the squad room of the 63rd Precinct and listened to two detectives lay out the case against him, that Gordon realized how his partners in crime had screwed him?”royally,” as his attorney put it.

While Gordon was doing the dirty work, his friends had found two duffel bags in an unlocked closet in the house of Davis’s girlfriend. Inside the bags were 10 bundles wrapped carefully in black garbage bags and then encased in clear plastic wrap. Each bundle contained $100,000, making it a cool $1 million that the robbers had whisked out of the closet.


Man. It hurt just reading that sh*t.

Tell me you wouldn’t be singing like a canary if you
found out you got vanilla-vaselined like that?

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If someone did You wrong like that, would it be time
to suspend “no police code” and take it to the streets.

Or would you sing like Mariah’s canary?

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Will Okun, Black Students and the New York Times

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What is it about Will Okun’s column that gets white folks so riled up?
I have an idea of what it is. See. He is a white man working with
Black students.

HE ALSO CLEARLY CARES ABOUT THE STUDENTS
and sees through other peoples sh*t talking about them.

Whenever we read a book by a black author about black culture or the ?black experience,? I feel disingenuous leading a class discussion about issues tied so directly to the lives of the students. What do I know of racism? What do I know of systematic poverty? What do I know of hunger? What do I know of a (perceived) limited future? What do I know of struggle? What do I know of gangs and random violence? What do I know of fear?

These are just ideas to me, facts and stories that I have studied in a book or observed from the safety of my own privileged distance. What can I tell them about their own lives? Can I or should I teach what I have never experienced?

I wonder if my students feel like I do when I am at a mandatory teacher training facilitated by a person who is not a teacher. Teachers stare angrily at one another as yet another educational expert pontificates endlessly about how we can better educate our children. How dare these academics or bureaucrats advise us when they themselves are not fighting and struggling in the classrooms on a daily basis?

As anyone who ever attended graduate school knows, the theory and the practice of teaching are worlds apart.

And he speaks, honestly, about what it means to HAVE
AND DO HIS JOB and do it WITH PASSION. Very FEW PEOPLE,
Black or White have the courage or passion to do what he DOES
let alone write about it.

Okun’s latest piece on weather Black or White teachers are better
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“…the other half of the class disagreed vehemently and argued that a teacher?s race plays a crucial role in the classroom. These students wrote about the importance of a ?shared experience.? Mildred explained, ?Black teachers know better where black students are coming from and so know how to better teach and explain lessons and ideas.? Darrel wrote, ?Black teachers want more from us.? Anthony agreed, ?Black teachers are harder on you. White teachers give up on you quicker.? Albert opined that ?black students feel like they are being judged by white teachers,? and so ?we will not ask or answer as many questions in a white class.? Ciarra concluded, ?Black teachers just know how to relate better; they make the class more important to what is going-on in your life.?

Man. This dude says things that so many of us feel but our, ahem,
platform is a little bit different.

Most of my readers, I understand, have some higher ed, OR
are in the process of pursuing it. Presuming that some of you
are Black and many of you are not I would like to know what
you think about the distinction between learning from someone
who “looks like you”, and someone who doesn’t.

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For Black children, especially, Urban Black children, do you think
it matters whether they learn from White teachers or Black
teachers? And because statistic show that most teachers in
“urban schools” are white women what can we do to support
them in teaching our children?

Peace to Yeye and his momma.
Real talk. I wonder what effect this will have have on his desire to
 get married and/or procreate.

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Remy Ma …American Gangster?

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My favorite part fo the Remy Ma article in The Voice is when the author
quotes some girls who catch a glimpse of Remy in the street:

“That’s Remy Ma!” a teenage girl says to her friend in disbelief.

The friend responds with a nudge: “Follow her!”

“Hell, no! She just shot her friend!” the first onlooker says,
staying right where she is.

Remy caught a case ladies and gentlemen.

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I am not feeling the Jay-Z single.

Seriously, when the video first starts out, that shit felt like it was the
great beginning of hot narrative short.



In fact. It has the beginnings of a hot documentary.

I have not listened to the new
jawn in its entirety as I am saving it for
some time on Friday when I can sit back and marinate,
decompress and get-‘er-in. (hi babe.)

I think I know what it is, I ain’t feeling how forced the hook feel.

It ain’t organic. Its like he trynna squeeze in too much.

Dear Summer. Show Me Wat’chu Got. They just flowed.

And the little shootin’ at the end is SO cliche. I mean.

Man.

Come on.

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Speaking of American Gangster NY mag has an conversation/interview
between Nicky Barnes and Frank Lucas.

Creepy. Old D-boys talking ’bout the good ‘ol days.

But then. They start getting real and talking
about how THEY DON’T want to glorify the street game.

MJ: When the movies come out, there?ll be a lot of controversy about whether you guys are being glorified. What about that?

FL: Nick is a good dude who should be glorified, not me.

MJ: Why do you say that?

FL: Because he?s a hell of a good guy.

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MJ: Frank. I mean, c?mon.

NB: No one should be elevated because of what they did in the drug business. The way we operated?there was a lot of violence, like, ten to twelve homicides, to keep the whole operation running. You can?t glorify that. It?s not something Frank or I would tell any of our children to get into.

FL: Absolutely right, Nick.

NB: Heroin wreaked a lot of havoc and a lot of pain in the black community. I shouldn?t have done it. Maybe I was aware, but I just didn?t give a fuck. I wanted to make money, and that?s what I did. Looking back, I wouldn?t have made those decisions, but it?s a hell of a lot different and much easier to sanitize yourself after the fact.

Wowsa. This is the voice that we NEVER hear. Black men speaking about AND
apologizing publicly for the havoc wreaked on the hood.

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New Jay, ye or nay?

If Jay did a version of “Big Brother” who would it be about
and why?

Are black folks to soft on thugs? Or are thugs like crack heads
and politicians, family members too?<<<---Can't believe I just said that. Whose more corrupt, dope dealers or cops? <<---Egregious. =====
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